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ES HAT NICHT SOLLEN SEIN.
Es ist im Leben hastlkh eingcrichtet
Das bei den Rosen auch dieDornen steh'n
Unci was das arm Hcrzauch sehn't und
dkhtet
Zum Schlunr kommt das Von cin-andcr-geh'n.
In deincn Augen haticht einst gefcsen,
Es blitzte a rinvon Lieb und Gluck tin
Schcm.
Behut dkh Gott : es war'zu schon gewesen,
Behut dich Gott ; es hat nicbt sollen sein.
Leid, Neid und Hass auch habe ich emp
fundcn, Ein Sturm geprufter, muder Wanders
mann,
Ich traumt von Friedcn, dann, und stillen
Stundcn,
Da fuhrnte mkh der Weg u dir hinan
In deincn Anncn wollt ich ganz genesen,
Zum Dank dir mein jungcs Leben weih'n;
Behut dkh Gott; es war su schon gewesen,
Behut dich Gott: es hatnkht sollen sein.
Die Wolken flkh'n. Der Wind sauft durch
die Blatter,
Ein Regenschauer sieht durch Wald und
FeU.
Zum AbscMednehmcn just das rechte
Wetter
Grau wie der Himmel steht vor mir die
Welt.
Doch wend' es sich sum Guten oder Bosen
Mein Leben langtmTrcuen denk'ich
dcint
Behut dkh Gott : es war tu schion gewesen.
Behut dkh Gott i es hat nicht sollen sein.
TRANSLATION.
KATHARINE HELICK.
(For The Courier.)
Forever, weaves our Fate
with cruel fingers
The thorns among the roses
of our morn,
Forever, though the sad heart
waits and lingers
At last the weary
parting time is born.
Once in thine eyes
I read in tender shading
Of love and hope,
unfaltering and free.
Oh, fare thee well :
too fair is but for fading,
Oh, fare thee well: - '-
it was not so to be.
Sorrow and want and hate
have been my portion.
A wanderer, wind-tossed
and tempest pressed,
I dreamed of quiet, thin,
and long devotion
Then led my way
before to thee, and rest.
There in thine arms
. my weary woes unlading.
There would I vow
my young life unto thee ;
Oh fare thee well :
'"'too fair is but for fading,
Oh fare thee well:
it was not so to be.
The storm clouds fly,
the wind with fitful starting
Sobs over wood and valley
from the sides,
The weary weather
for a weary parting,
Grey as the clouds
the world before me lies.
Though yet my fate
bring glad or joyless lading
My life troth
is forever unto thee :
Oh fare thee well :
too fair is but for fading,
Oh fare thee well :
it was not so to be.
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GOD AND THE RICH MAN.
"Rockefeller's church struck by light
ning," was a headline in the papers, a
few days since. We used to think a
church was God's house, but we've
changed all that in these latter days.
Now a church is spoken of as the
church of its richest member or par
ishioner. And it's logical. The con
temporaneous rich man seems to run
his church simply by virtue of paying
its bills. When he pays the pastor's
salary, the lighting bills, the coal bills,
the organist's salary, the rich man re
serves to himself the right to dictate
the doctrine to be taught, and as the
doctrine is his doctrine, the church be
comes his church. Very Boon, if mat-
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PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION.
ters go on aa they have been going, we
shall tind that our rich men, like the
nobility of England, will have livings
at their disposal. They will have their
preachers as they have their private
secretaries or their butlers and be as
much masters of the preachers' actions.
They will make of the preachers, as in
many instances in the big cities they
have already been made, parasites. The
preachers will not preach Christ and
Him crucified, but the patron and him
glorified. The tendency doesn't mani
fest itself in any particular sect above
the others. In every sect we hear of
preachers who bad to get out of pulpits
because they did or said or failed to do
or to say something, that some rich
church member did not wish or did
desire. The preacher who can't get
"next" and stay "next" to the wealthy
people in his congregation eventually
has to get out. His doctrine must be
suited to his hearers of the wealthy
class or the wealthy classes will find
some preacher who is willing to tell
what his auditors wish to hear. The
preacher with a mistress-keeping patron
dare not discuss the seventh command
ment. The preacher with a clientele
of gambling speculators dares not
preach about business morality. None
of the fashionable vices may be de
nounced to persons who have them all.
The wealthy members of a congrega
tion will not be told their sins. They
don't want to hear any thing but gen
eralities of the most scattering sort.
The word of God must be made to con
form to the prejudices of the well-to-do.
The toes of the wealthy must not be
trampled upon. The Bible must be
expurgated of everything tending to
confirm the saying about the camel,
the needle's eye and the rich man en
tering heaven. And so the church that
Mr. Roskefeller attends, or the church
that Mr. Pierpont Morgan attends, is no
longer the church of God, but the
church of Mr. Rockefeller or of Mr.
Morgan. In New York, Boston, Phila
delphia, Chicago and St. Louis, there
are churches known as millionaire
churches. They are pointed out as
having memberships aggregating so
and so much wealth. They are remark
able, not for the good they do, but for
the fact that so many millionaires fre
quent them at certain times and con
descend to bestow upon God and re
ligion their distinguished consideration
for an hour or two at a time, provided
God's minister doesn't remind them of
any thing unpleasant that God may
have said concerning any of the things
that millionaires do in their pursuit of
business or pleasure. The eyes of the
congregation are turned on the richest
man present. The preacher preaches
soft-soap at him. The choir Bings the
music he likes. Religion is the million
aire's handmaiden and the service is
designed for his delectation just as a
vaudeville show might be designed to
the same end. The religion of the
wealthy is a new growth. It is not a
religion at all. It is an organized sys
tem of flattery of rich people perpetrat
ed by preachers who do not worship
God, but do worship the patrons who
pay their living expenses and take them
on trips in private cars to Europe.
These millionaire churches are increas
ing and consequently religion is de
creasing. The wealthy are growing into
the habit of thinking of religion or of
church attendance as being only a mat
ter or Bocial form. The church is not
much better thought of than the thea
ter. The wealthy do as they please and
the church rarely brings them to task
for their follies or their einB. If a
preacher accidentlv gives a Bwell con
gregation the gospel with the bark on
the incident becomes a sensation. In
view of all of which, it is wonderful
that, if there be a God who deals out
lightning, as we used to believe, many
more of the millionaire's churches are
not stricken with boltB of shattering
and consuming flame. In too much of
our present religion God is made to
take a back seat for the rich man. The
rich man cuts out anything, that God
has said, that he doesn't like. The rich
man hires preachers and builds church
es to have incense burned to him, not to
his Maker. And the result of this is
that the poor man begins to see that
religion is of a different brand accord
ing to the wealth of him to whom it is
preached. The old religion disappears.
The sermons to the wealthy are be
coming aesthetic essays on timely top
ics. The poor man, therefore, won't
stand for hell-fire and damnation. The
preachers to the rich are sinking to the
level of mere parlor entertainers.
The rich have a bastard religion that
means nothing. The poor have no re
ligion to speak of. They prefer the
summer garden or the continuous the
atrical performance. If they go to
church at all they are apt to go to the
church that puts up the best show and
can exhibit a few millionaires in the
front pews down the centre aisle. Most
clergymen will agree that this state
ment of the case is true. None of them
has any remedy, or if, perchance, any of
them have a remedy, that remedy is
something alorg the lines of a general
revolution the mere mention of which
makes them "anarchists" in the eyes of
the wealthy, and puts them under a
cloud with the managing geniuses of
their denominations. The preacher
who can't get money is not in good
standing with his superiors. lie can't
get it from those who haven't got it.
Therefore he must cater to the rich or
be dangerous and submit to being ma
rooned in some country charge or city
slum work. The churches need a shak
ing up. The churches are becoming
decadent and spinelen. They are more
under the influence of wealth than is
the government, and it is church truck
ling to wealth that sets the fashion of
sycophancy among the people. The
Mirror.
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